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...impromptu bar, three foghorns four bells, 20 girls from local educational institutions, and a ten-mile ride in a charted MTA streetcar livened up the twilight hours for the tuxedoed thrill seekers...
...Careful, Careful." As Li talked, a Chinese air force Mustang, humming along in the fading twilight, nosed over and swooped down on a village three mile, east. A few seconds later we heard the sharp chatter of machine guns. "That village is my objective tonight," said Li. "When the sun is down my artillery will open up and then the infantry will move...
...There is, happily, a vast difference between the possibility and the probability of war. Between the two lies a twilight of tension . . . that might last a generation and in the end mean peace or war . . . However, if this Army is to prevent war, it must be made part of a stable long-range military policy-a policy as prolonged as the period of tension ... If we are to hop, skip and jump every time a paper is rustled east of the Elbe, we shall place ourselves supinely and helplessly at [the Russians'] feet while they call the tune...
...milder method of dredging the mind is narcosynthesis (with some such "truth serum" as sodium amytal). In a twilight state between wakefulness and deep sleep, the patient often says things he cannot or will not say when fully conscious. Narcosynthesis works best when the patient's difficulties are recent (as in some "war neuroses"). The most desperate treatment of all, for the patient who fails to respond to anything else, is a drastic brain operation, like lobotomy (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946). Lobotomy may relieve the more troublesome symptoms, but it may also leave the patient so irresponsible or lumpish...
...from the great days when John Churchill, the first Duke, fought gloriously for England at Blenheim and Sarah, his wife, conspired in the boudoir of her bosom friend Queen Anne. Since then, Britain's empire had dawned and passed high noon. In the twilight of this empire, the family name had been kept bright by a commoner named Winston Churchill. Last week, however, the Marl-boroughs were once again in the forefront of the news. In London, gossips linked the names of Princess Margaret and the 22-year-old Marquess of Blandford, heir of the tenth Duke. At Blenheim...